reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-says-march-election-will-be-his-final-state-media-reports-2024-03-08

Deep state got to him

What did he do to oppose the deep state? Seemed like he was all talk and no action.

Didn't he say this in 2009?

Believe it when I see it

still 4 years

Allied with the Gulenists to clear Kemalists out of the military and reduce the power of the military and then purged the Gulenists in the 2016 coup attempt

Civil war

Turkey has a deep state?

In the West they tell us Erdogan runs that s***

Yep “deep state” as a term, if not a concept, originates in Turkey

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_Turkey

Basically it is nationalist, secularist, and “liberal”. My impression is that it has largely been dismantled/co-opted by Erdogan seeing as he hasn’t faced any serious resistance from the military and has also been able to handicap his opponents

My understanding is that the term originates with Curtis Yarvin in the US, circa mid 2000s

So i cant go to turkey for vacation no more when hes retired smh
Recep abi baskan tesekkürler ya
Turkish germans gonna miss you sir thats 4 sure

Idk who first applied it to the US context but it definitely comes from Turkey

Turkey is where the term deep state originated

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susurluk_scandal

Mainly Peter Dale Scott, who had been theorizing about the concept since the 70s. He didn’t actually start to use that term until later. I believe he picked it up from Ola Tunander after he began applying it to Turkey

Good. Hopefully Turkey will be safer for leftists then

WhT do you think of this? @xxxkiraxxx

It’s so over..

That mf has been sick since idk when I don’t think he’s capping here I’m glad he’s finally retiring but he still got 4 years of his presidency left lol. His s*** should’ve ended in 2014 or 2019 minimum. Now when it comes to potential candidates it doesn’t look good rn, you will either get an offspring wasteman of Erdogan’s party or some liberal dumbfuck who will need to appeal to the anti-immigrant / anti-arab crowd to get votes

reading this I realized that whoevers next up once Putin retires is gonna be the most insufferable libtard this planet has ever f***ing seen

Is Imamoglu not a decent option, I’m not familiar with his politics I just remember the story when he got arrested before the previous elections

The one who replaces him is chosen by Putin so doubt that